Resultados para "Voltaire" en Antologías y relatos breves

The French Classics Collection brings together 18 of the greatest works of fiction ever written in French - here collected into one audiobook and all translated into English. Featuring grand epics of love, loss, and survival, as in Les Miserables, to tales of adventure in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, and romances such as Madame Bovary, alongside many more grand stories from 17th, 18th, and 19th century France, this collection will whisk you away into other worlds with some of the greatest characters in literature within some of the greatest novels ever written.

First published in 1752, "Micromegas" is one of Voltaire’s best-known works. It is a tale of mordant irony, and actually the original science-fiction short story. Arriving on Earth from the star Sirius, the gigantic explorer Micromegas discovers the people of Earth, so small compared to him that he first believes that no creature this size can hope to achieve any degree of intelligence; he will soon discover the ways and thoughts of these diminutive people, who clearly have an over-inflated idea of their own importance in the universe. Voltaire's extrapolations of sun-powered interstellar flight, alien civilizations, and the two moons of Mars, are designed to make us see ourselves in a new light and laugh at what we find.

These two classic coming-of-age stories by Voltaire parody the romanticism of his day with the ruthless wit that has made him the undisputed master of social commentary.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. The City of Lights may be one of the glories of the world but for those whose three score and ten have passed it is the final resting place for some of the very finest of literary talents.

"C'est la vie: Große französische Romane und Erzählungen" - ungekürzt! Französische Literatur - das ist seit jeher ein besonderer Blick auf unsere Welt und darauf, wie das Leben ist. Leidenschaftliche, ja unsterbliche Liebe, philosophischer Humor, erotische Abenteuerlust und Spaß am Spiel sind die Hauptthemen der großen Box: zeitlose Unterhaltung mit Esprit. Mit dabei: "Die Frau von dreißig Jahren" (Balzac), "Die Kameliendame" (Dumas), "Candide" (Voltaire), "Erotische Meisterwerke" (Maupassant), "In 80 Tagen um die Welt" (Verne).